topic Re: Configuring Sendmail for a domain in Operating System - HP-UX

Configuring Sendmail for a domain

Preet Dhillon — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:03:04 GMT

Hi People,

I'm trying to configure sendmail on my HP server to send mail to my Internet email address i.e. user@domain.co.uk

I've tried the following command :
elm -s "File logfile.log" user@domain.co.uk < logfile.log
This does not work.

If I try
elm -s "File logfile.log" username < logfile.log

it works OK but sends it to my UNIX mailbox.

Basically I've got some automated scripts which run each day and I'd like to be emailed at my corporate email address when they finish
running.

Can anyone help ?

Many thanks in advance, peeps :-)

Re: Configuring Sendmail for a domain

Laurent Paumier — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:14:38 GMT

Does your server have connectivity to the internet ? If you want to send email directly to the internet, your server needs to be routed to the outside and must have access to a DNS server. Another solution would be to define a smart relay in your sendmail.cf.

Re: Configuring Sendmail for a domain

Frank Li — Thu, 19 Jul 2001 05:47:35 GMT

1.First your HP box can connect to outside , you can test it with "ping www.cisco.com"

2.you can use :
%sendmail -v user@domain.com
for send a test mail

3.To check whether the mail has been sent out,run the command on the mail server
mailq .

Re: Configuring Sendmail for a domain

someone_4 — Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:48:58 GMT

Considering you can send mail out to your network or the internet.
This will work.
filename is a file that you will be emailed
what ever is in that file will be in the email you get.
just add this line to the end of your script:

cat filename |mailx -s "subject line will read" youremail@atyourdomain.com

to send the same file to your unix user name:
cat file1 |mailx -s "subject" user@localhost

if you want every email that you get in your unix box to go to your email set up a
.forward file in your home dir.
and all it has to have is the email you want all your emails forwarded. one line per email address..

Richard

Re: Configuring Sendmail for a domain

someone_4 — Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:50:55 GMT

opps when i said ..
to send the same file to your unix user name:
cat file1 |mailx -s "subject" user@localhost

file1 should be filename if you want to send the same file .. as the first example.

Richard